Primate Origins of Human Nature, Van Schaik Carel P.

Автор: Kivell
Название: The Evolution of the Primate Hand
ISBN: 1493936441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493936441
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book demonstrates how the primate hand combines both primitive and novel morphology, both general function with specialization, and both a remarkable degree of diversity within some clades and yet general similarity across many others. Across the chapters, different authors have addressed a variety of specific questions and provided their perspectives, but all explore the main themes described above to provide an overarching “primitive primate hand” thread to the book. Each chapter provides an in-depth review and critical account of the available literature, a balanced interpretation of the evidence from a variety of perspectives, and prospects for future research questions. In order to make this a useful resource for researchers at all levels, the basic structure of each chapter is the same, so that information can be easily consulted from chapter to chapter. An extensive reference list is provided at the end of each chapter so the reader has additional resources to address more specific questions or to find specific data.

Автор: Chris Vinyard; Matthew J. Ravosa; Christine Wall
Название: Primate Craniofacial Function and Biology
ISBN: 1489991816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489991812
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Описание: This integrative volume is the most comprehensive text on primate craniofacial biology and function and includes introductory chapters on how primatologists study adaptations in primates and a discussion of in vivo approaches for studying primate performance.

Автор: Finlayson Clive
Название: Improbable Primate
ISBN: 0198743890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198743897
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In The Improbable Primate, Clive Finlayson gives a provocative view of human evolution, arguing that the critical factor that shaped us was water. Questioning current accounts of tools and our spread from Africa, he presents an ecological viewpoint.

Автор: Finlayson
Название: The Improbable Primate
ISBN: 019965879X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199658794
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Цена: 20050.00 T
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Описание: In this provocative view of human evolution, Clive Finlayson argues that the critical factor to shape us was environmental change, particularly the availability of water. Using these new insights he demonstrates the radical implications for our understanding of the emergence and spread of Homo sapiens.

Автор: Gluck John P. JR.
Название: Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist`s Ethical Journey
ISBN: 022637565X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226375656
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate about the ethics of animal research. For decades, proponents of such research have argued that the discoveries and benefits for humans far outweigh the costs of the traumatic effects on the animals; but today, even the researchers themselves have come to question the practice. John P. Gluck has been one of the scientists at the forefront of the movement to end research on primates, and in Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals he tells a vivid, heart-rending, personal story of how he became a vocal activist for animal protection.

Gluck begins by taking us inside the laboratory of Harry F. Harlow at the University of Wisconsin, where Gluck worked as a graduate student in the 1960s. Harlow's primate lab became famous for his behavioral experiments in maternal deprivation and social isolation of rhesus macaques. Though trained as a behavioral scientist, Gluck finds himself unable to overlook the intense psychological and physical damage these experiments wrought on the macaques. Gluck's sobering and moving account reveals how in this and other labs, including his own, he came to grapple with the uncomfortable justifications that many researchers were offering for their work. As his sense of conflict grows, we're right alongside him, developing a deep empathy for the often smart and always vulnerable animals used for these experiments.

At a time of unprecedented recognition of the intellectual cognition and emotional intelligence of animals, Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals is a powerful appeal for our respect and compassion for those creatures who have unwillingly dedicated their lives to science. Through the words of someone who has inflicted pain in the name of science and come to abhor it, it's important to know what has led this far to progress and where further inroads in animal research ethics are needed.

Автор: Chris Vinyard; Matthew J. Ravosa; Christine Wall
Название: Primate Craniofacial Function and Biology
ISBN: 0387765840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387765846
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This integrative volume is the most comprehensive text on primate craniofacial biology and function and includes introductory chapters on how primatologists study adaptations in primates and a discussion of in vivo approaches for studying primate performance.

Автор: Harr?
Название: The Meaning of Primate Signals
ISBN: 0521087732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521087735
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Language is just one particularly highly developed form of primate communication. Recent years have seen increased attention to other forms: studies of animals in the wild, efforts to teach sign language to apes. This volume reflects perspectives from a variety of disciplines on the nature and function of primate signalling systems.